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EcoUnionist News #109
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 21, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Oil Companies Facing Spurt of Lawsuits After Robbing Oilfield Workers of Millions in Wages - By Larry Buhl, DeSmog Blog, June 19, 2016
- Rolling blockade at Burghfield nuclear weapons factory - By Theo Simon, Red Pepper, June 16, 2016
- American Seafood Has Its Own Forced Labor Problem - By Alex Sammon, Mother Jones, June 15, 2016; [related]: Let’s stop the downgrading of workers and jobs in supply chains - By Steve Cotton, Equal Times, June 7, 2016
- Nigeria: Niger Delta Avengers Threaten Further Violence in Oil-Producing Region - By Conor Gaffey, Newsweek, June 14, 2016
- Don’t Mess with the Corn: Lessons from Mexico’s Struggle against GMOs - By Soledad Barruti, Argentina Independent, June 7, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
- TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016
The Thin Green Line:
- Public health experts expose coal hazard ‘protection’ fallacies - By Steve Masover, No Coal in Oakland, June 19, 2016
- Over a Quarter of a Million Public Comments Against Largest Coal Export Terminal in North America - By staff, Power Past Coal, June 13, 2016
- Bay Area Residents and Environmental Advocates Push Swift Adoption of Rule to Cap Refinery Emissions - By Andrés Soto and Ratha Lai, Communities for a Better Environment and Sierra Club SF Bay Chapter, June 14, 2016; [related]: Cap Bay Area refinery emissions now - By Andrés Soto and Sandy Saeteurn, San Francisco Chronicle, June 12, 2016
- Tesoro refinery expansion poses risk to community - By Alicia Rivera, Daily Breeze, June 3, 2016
Just Transition:
- Oil Sands Workers Fear Becoming Climate Change Casualties - By Mychaylo Prystupa, The Tyee, June 17, 2016
- 50% Renewables In Australia Could Create 28,000 New Jobs By 2030 - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 17, 2016
- Australian taxpayers could pay billions to clean up old mines, report says - By Thom Mitchell, New Matilda, June 16, 2016
- Here’s How We Get to 100% Renewable Energy - By Richard Heinberg, EcoWatch, June 15, 2016
- Public Banks as the Antithesis of Neoliberalism - By Matt Stannard, Public Banking Institute, May 19, 2016
- Our Fossil-Fuel Economy Destroys the Earth and Exploits Humanity; Here's the Shift We Need to Be Sustainable - By Iliana Salazar-Dodge, Alternet, May 12, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- Pathways of Transition to Agroecological Food Systems - By Adam Parsons, CounterPunch, June 17, 2016
- TTIP and CETA: We won't let them trade us away - By Hanny van Geel, et. al., La Via Campesina, June 16, 2016; [related]: NFU Action alert: Trans Pacific Partnership input deadline coming soon - By National Farmers' Union, La Via Campesina, June 16, 2016
- Women lead the fight against corporate agriculture around the world - By Mark Karlin, Rabble.Ca, June 16, 2016
- “This Program should be everywhere…” - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, June 15, 2016
- Land Reform and food sovereignty - By Nyéléni, La Via Campesina, June 14, 2016
- With Measure 1 Failure, DRC Applauds North Dakotans for Mobilizing and Rejecting Corporate Farming - By staff, Dakota Resource Council, June 14, 2016
- Sakuma Brothers Farms Raises Wages After Farmworkers Walk Off the Job - By Ansel Herz, The Stranger, June 13, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- NUMSA supports the Working on Fire workers - By Patrick Craven, NUMSA, June 17, 2016
- City of Alexandria tries to censor ATU 981 transit workers - By staff, ATU, June 16, 2016
- Federal regulators must prohibit one-person freight train crews - By staff, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, June 16, 2016
- Nearly half of NYC private garbage trucks have maintenance issues; drivers say they’re ‘unsafe for everyone’ - By Dan Rivoli, New York Daily News, June 16, 2016
- Toxic Chemicals Found in Residents Living Near Oil and Gas Operations in Pavillion, Wyoming - By Coming Clean, EcoWatch, June 16, 2016
- Payout for widow of forestry worker killed near Stratford - By Jeremy Wilkinson, Stuff, June 3, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- OSHA launches pilot program for severe violators of whistleblower protection laws - By staff, BLR.com, June 7, 2016
Wobbles:
- Amazon Tribe Blockade Railroad in Protest against Brazilian Mining Giant - By staff, Native News Online, June 18, 2016
- BXE hijacks stage at VA Energy Policy Forum - By staff, Beyond Extreme Energy, June 17, 2016
- Environmental Justice Activists Fight Plans for Federal Prison on Mountaintop-Removal Site - By Candice Bernd, Truthout, June 17, 2016; [related]: Fight Toxic Prisons march blockades Bureau of Prisons - By staff, The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons, June 13, 2016
- Chaos Erupts in Paris as Riot Police Unleash on 50,000-Strong Labor Protest - By Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, June 14, 2016; [related]: At least 40 injured, 58 arrested in Paris anti-labor reform protests - By staff, Russia Times, June 14, 2016; [and]: Bring the French government to its knees - By Darren Roso, Red Flag, June 12, 2016
- Divestment Crusaders Hold Stanford Donations Hostage - By Julianne Geiger, OilPrice.Com, June 14, 2016
- New Yorkers Erect Giant Tripod In Front Of AIM Pipeline Site - By JC Reindl, Inside Climate News, June 14, 2016
- Protesters Tell Feds to 'Keep It in the Ground' at Fossil Fuel Auction in Reno; Nevadans to Obama: Halt Lease Sales Now to Protect Water, Land, Wildlife, Climate Future - By Valarie Love, et. al., Center for Biological Diversity, et. al., June 14, 2016
- Southern Oregon landowners and allies declare eminent domain over Williams Company regional office in Eugene, demand halt to LNG Pipeline Project - By staff, Southern Oregon Rising Tide, June 14, 2016
- Spreading “Seeds of Resistance” against Pipelines - By Collin Rees, Oil Change International, June 14, 2016
- Third Tree-Sit Against Fracked Gas Pipeline Ends in Arrest, Group Vows to Continue Fight - By staff, Rising Tide Vermont, June 14, 2016
- Two hundred Indigenous U'wa occupy gas plant in Colombia - By Charlie Satow, Center for World Indigenous Studies, June 14, 2016
- Detroit sides with anarchists over developer in land bid - By JC Reindl, Detroit Free Press, June 10, 2016
Other News:
- Harvard Study Finds $38 Billion Economic Benefit From EPA’s Carbon Rule - By Alejandro Davila Fragoso, Think Progress, June 19, 2016
- How Labor and Environmental Groups Are (Finally) Finding Common Ground - By Julie Grant, Allegheny Front, June 17, 2016
- Working Collectively Beats Working for a Boss - By Pete Dolack, CounterPunch, June 17, 2016; [related]: The Next Boom for Worker Co-ops? - By Keli A. Tianga, Shelterforce, May 3, 2016
- A brother’s tragic passing: Facing death in life - By Patrick Mazza, Cascadia Planet, June 15, 2016
- Why is logging dying? Blame the market - By George Wuerthner, High Country News, June 15, 2016
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